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Art Appreciation 9
Running Head: From the Baroque Period Through the Romantic Age

From the Baroque Period through the Romantic Age
Art Appreciation
Darlene Heffron

Introduction
The artists of the Realism era depicted in their paintings what they saw around them. Unfortunately it was war. During the eighteenth century, faced with the reality of war, the era of idealism seemed absurd to most and therefore realism scenes of battles and the aftermath of the dying were the topics for an artist to create on canvas. Even through these times of war, these artists conveyed different messages, which were quite apparent through their work. There were three particular paintings that depicted those dark times and they are: Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People c. 1830, Ernest Meissonier, Memory of Civil War (The Barricades) c. 1849, and Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, c. 1849.

Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People c. 1830

This detailed painting depicts a battle which took place during the Revolution in July 1830. The painting is very realistic. In Paris, on July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, Eugene Delacroix witnessed first hand the uprising known as the Trois Glorieuses (“Three Glorious Days”), and was started by liberal republicans for violating the Constitution of the government (Sayre, H. M. 2010). Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France was ousted out and Louis Philippe replaced him as the new leader.
Delacroix saw this particular battle as good subject matter for a painting and he went to work. His imagination was fired up with passion. He knew this event would change the course of history and reverse the trends of the artist. He depicted this with all manner of things: a natural world portrayed with rage with an explosion on a street in Paris (Louvre Museum. n.d.).
Delacroix depended solely on members of the royal family and donations from various institutions to help fund his art projects. Sketches were done prior to



References: Gustave Courbet (n.d.) Burial at Ornans. Retrieved on April 16, 2010 from website: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/gustave-courbet/burial-at-ornans.html Louvre Museum. (n.d.) French Paintings. Retrieved on April 17, 2010 from website: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/detail_notice.jsp?CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226338&CURRENT_LLV_NOTICE%3C%3Ecnt_id=10134198673226338&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=9852723696500815&baseIndex=8&bmLocale=en Sayre, H. M. (2010) A World of Art. The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Realism. Sixth ed. Chap. 20 (p. 487-493). Prentice Hall. Pearson Pub. Shafer, A. (1999) Art Annotations. Literature, Arts, and Medicine Database. Retrieved on April 17, 2010 from website: http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=10337

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